Elon Musk founds artificial intelligence company

Last March, Elon Musk founded a new company specializing in artificial intelligence, which he called “X. AI” and is based in Nevada, according to an official document on companies registered in this US state, which was seen by the “AFP

An article published by the “Financial Times” newspaper, on Friday, stated that the new company aims to compete with the emerging “Open AI” company that designed the “Chat GBT” chatbot based on generative artificial intelligence, which interacts with humans, and can produce all kinds of texts

The success achieved by this program since its launch at the end of November has led to technology companies racing to provide this technology with advanced capabilities

Since the end of February, several specialized media have reported that Elon Musk is investing in the field of artificial intelligence. And it quoted unnamed sources as saying that Musk recently hired Igor Babushkin and Manuel Kroes, who had previously worked for the “DeepMind” laboratory for artificial intelligence within the “Alphabet” group, the owner of Google.

This information coincided with Musk signing with hundreds of academics, heads of companies and personalities at the end of last March, a petition in which they called for a six-month cessation of research aimed at finding artificial intelligence techniques that are stronger than “GBT Chat They expressed their fear of the “great dangers this technology poses to humanity,” and asked: “Is it intended to develop (non-human) software that can eventually outperform us in terms of numbers and intelligence, and replace us?"

Musk co-founded Open AI in 2015, before leaving the company in 2018. Since 2019, Microsoft has been the main financier of the startup, which is based in California.